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A new spending discipline is taking hold inside corporate America, as chief financial officers and boards start cracking down on inefficient artificial intelligence spending. The change has the potential to reshape the AI trade. For the past two years, the playbook has been to de

One of the world’s biggest data center projects was designed to be nearly three times the size of Manhattan, stretching across multiple Utah sites. But intense local backlash in Box Elder County has now pushed the developer to cut the project plans in half before construction sta

Intel announced a set of data center updates at Computex 2026 in Taipei spanning compute, networking, and its AI accelerator roadmap. The headline item is the introduction of Intel Xeon 6+ processors, paired with an expanded 800 Series Ethernet lineup based on Intel Ethernet E835

Hidden among the architectural landmarks of General Motors’ sprawling Warren Tech Center outside Detroit is a new cornerstone of the automaker’s $900 million bet on its electric future. The nondescript 500,000-square-foot pair of off-white boxes, which house GM’s new Battery Cell

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Lectric eBikes, a Phoenix, Arizona-based company known for its practical and affordable XP series electric bikes, has launched three new brands so far this year — a Juiced Bikes relaunch, a new Juiced Powersports brand, and now a premium adventure brand called Monarc — an expansi

Google’s ‘Power-First’ Data Centers: A New Model for Energy Scarcity? Google’s Texas AI campus pairs a data center with 1 GW of generation, testing a “power-first” model as hyperscalers chase scarce electricity. As the race for AI dominance intensifies, Google is trialing a new a

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While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction. Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board, a startup focused on bringing people together through in-person games and social experiences. Cyberdeck cre

My hopes were high for the new Prime Video superhero series Spider-Noir, based on all those amazing trailers. But I also had some trepidation. Could the actual series live up to the hype? As it turns out, yes, it could. Spider-Noir is a triumph, fusing fast-paced storytelling, co

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Apple heads into next week's Worldwide Developers Conference with its stock near record highs, iPhone momentum improving and one unresolved question hanging over Tim Cook's final developer conference as CEO: Can Apple finally deliver the artificial intelligence experience it prom

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NSA using Claude Mythos for 'offensive cyber operations,' report claims — says 'half-a-dozen' Anthropic engineers embedded inside the agency It was dubbed a supply chain risk a few months ago Just months after the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) labelled Anthropic a "supply chai

Mini-PCs have become increasingly popular systems for both home and office environments. However, don't let their size fool you, as these tiny systems often pack enough firepower to rival standard desktops. If a mini-PC purchase is in your short-term plans, Aoostar’s prominent li

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We’re now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conviction from Big Tech companies that AI is going to change everything about how we do everything. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang made that clearer than anyone this week, when he described a

NetApp and Cisco have introduced an expanded set of FlexPod-validated solutions to simplify the deployment of secure, scalable AI infrastructure. The announcement builds on the long-standing FlexPod partnership, positioning the platform as a pre-validated foundation for organizat

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Supabase, the open source database of choice for the vibe-coding world, has raised a $500 million Series F at a $10 billion pre-money valuation, the company announced Friday. That’s about $10.5 billion after the investment. The newly minted decacorn has been doubling its valuatio

Off the Wire Press Releases June 5, 2026 — Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have developed a practical, comprehensive noise-modeling framework for a popular class of superconducting

Microsoft said Friday that LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is leaving the software company's board of directors after almost a decade. Hoffman, 58, informed the board of his decision not to run for reelection on Tuesday, Microsoft said in a filing. He will remain a director unti

A ransomware gang has escalated its attacks on law firms by sometimes sending fake IT workers in person to the victims’ offices, where the imposters steal data directly from the victims’ computers using USB drives or help other gang members connect to the computers remotely, acco

Intel will reportedly upgrade its Wildcat Lake refresh to an 8-core config next year, leak claims — top-end silicon tipped to feature 4 P-cores and 4 LP-E cores as part of 'Core 400' series Wildcat Lake is seemingly due for a big upgrade next year. Intel just launched its Core 30

On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced his administration’s latest attempt to prop up the US coal industry during an incoherent press event that randomly oscillated between energy issues and Trump’s fixation with building and renovating monuments in DC. The energy portion

Smartwatches can track your health stats, but they also do a lot of other things you might not always want or need. The $100 Fitbit Air tracker ditches the screens that have become common on people’s wrists, leaving behind a tiny puck of health sensors you can often forget you’re

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Acer MA200 is a competent M.2 2230 NVMe SSD with reasonably good performance and power efficiency, even if it’s not the fastest drive out there. Pros - + Good performance where it matters - + Power-efficient Cons - - Not the fastest drive available - -

Seattle to pass one-year AI data center moratorium next week — will use window to study community impact of AI buildouts Some of the biggest spenders on AI data centers can't put one up in their own backyard. Two city council committees just passed a data center moratorium in Sea

The New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law. New York lawmakers pass one-year ban on new data centers It could become the first ban of its kind in